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Originally posted by allamala:
They could as well be real if you ask me.
Me saying they might be viruses or trojans has nothing to do with me not believing they can be done. It's just a simple fact on the internet that viruses and trojans are often camouflaged as things people want a lot, with names "people" (read, computer-impaired public-workers who spend all their time playing solitare) won't suspect.
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All data being on CD (since there are no interessting VM game out yet I don't have any so I cannot tell if they script is actually downloaded which would make it harder, but I doubt it since they claim it takes only very short, which it wouldn't on slow connections and a few MB to dl). So even if the data on CD is encrypted and it's not only used as ignition, even if that key was to be calculated with the users mac address or whatever...it doesn't change the fact that's it's crackable. I don't dislike vmate, it saves money for buying games, I am just worried GC will be a bit disappointed and maybe even quiet soon.
So well to at least answer question 4: sighted none, didn't search for any. However I am convinced with a packet logging tool, a debugger,disassembler a few copies of a game and some computers it can be created. (edit: and maybe even some programming skills required)
Data encrypted? Maybe, but I suspect they didn't even bother. The game and VM are separate software from what I've heard, VM works like a proxy for the game<->server requests (the VM client software is available for download at their website). I think it works like this:
- The game gives VM the user info (username/password)
- VM sends it to the server along with other computer info (hardware hash, product id and whatever else they want to, basically)
- the server checks the data and replies something (probably a simple "ok")
- VM then tells something to the game, like "ok, the server says you're clean, so here's the key to decrypt your data" or even something more n00bish like "ok, you can step out of your authentication loop".
The whole scheme is so full of holes I could sell it for cheese but, hey, if it makes GC feel more safe... [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/wink.gif[/img]
Anyway, the board mods dislike tech-talk, so we best not touch such matters again.